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the kind I was planning on.
"My first job was with a Brit-
(Continued from Page 2) ish group, but soon I went with
Associated Press. Since I came
ng, more haphzrd graves du from Russia- I told you I was
ng the battle and mass graves born in Kiev, didn't I - it was
while the Germans were in flight, sort of natural that I should work
Sometimes the Russian soldiers in Moscow. And there I stayed
had to finish burying their dead." until they threw me out.
Magidoff made 14 trips to the "It wasn't hard to give up be-
ront - the only correspondent ing a correspondent. There comes
o cover the entire war on the a time when it is no thrill in get-
Russian front. ting -a scoop. That kind of thing
is for young men. Be sure to men-
fHE TROUBLED face suddenly tion my grey hair when you tell
brightened, them I said that."
"Enough of this. I shall tell you
sow I met my wife. I was ice skat- MIAGIDOFF has written four
.ng in Russia in late 1935. Some- book - two on Russia and
sow or other, I tripped and up two musical biographies. The first,
aine a beautiful young Russian "In Anger and Pity" tells of his
irl to help me to my feet. I was experiences during his 13 years
efinitely interested. as a foreign correspondent in
"It didn't take me long to spot Moscow. This was later followed
her again and I threw myself by a study of Soviet totalitarian-
ight at her feet. Well, she helped ism appropriately called "The
me up and we've been hanging Kremlin vs. the People."
>nto each other ever since. But Robert Magidoff's greatest
"Now you be sure to pit down fame has come through his two
hat I tripped. My wife is always biographies.ofteewshele
elling people what a terrible The first of these was the life
skater t ,am.", of Yehudi Menuhin, a personal
friend of the Magidoffs. "On the
Turning his mind from the past basis of this, I was invited by
o the present - to his life at the Ezio Pinza to write the story of
University, he said, "Now I am a his life. I'll never forget our last
eaching fellow and work for my interview.
octorate in the winter and write "I had been working with him
n the summer. I really enjoy my for about three months, and it
lasses." He seemed a little sur- was decided that April 30 would
>rised at his own statement. "I be the last discussion before I
lways thought I would like to went up to New England for the
each only Russian literature but summer to write the book. Well.
as a teaching fellow I had no I noticed he didn't look too well
hoice but to take language and I left a little early. I was the
lasses. And I like it. Besides, now last person he ever spoke to co-
have a chance to do research herently. His wife later told me
work that before I had gotten to my
car she heard him fall. You know
"M Y WRITING is something that the stroke he had affected
different. I always knew I'd his speech. Before he had a
ike that. I majored in compara- chance to regain it, he was dead.
tve literature at the University It is a very great pity."
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